Jenny L. Davis
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Jenny L. Davis is an American linguist, anthropologist, and activist. She is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology, American Indian Studies, and Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she is the director of the Native American and Indigenous Languages (NAIL) Lab.[1]. Her research focuses on contemporary Indigenous language(s) and identity, focusing on Indigenous language revitalization and Indigenous gender and sexuality[2].
Life and activism[edit]
Davis was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. She has worked as an lgtbq/Two-Spirit activist for nearly two decades, including serving as the co-director of the Denver Two-Spirit Society (2007-2010) and the Tulsa Two-Spirit Society (2010-2011) and co-organized the 2009 International Two Spirit Gathering in Estes Park, Colorado[3]
Education and career[edit]
Davis holds a BA in Spanish and a BA in English from Oklahoma State University and an MA and PhD in Linguistics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has held the Henry Roe Cloud Fellowship at Yale University and the Lyman T. Johnson Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Kentucky. [4] She has been awarded the Ruth Benedict Prize by the Association for Queer Anthropology for her co-edited volume, Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality[5], and the Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Award by the University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. [6]
Books[edit]
- Davis, Jenny L. (2018-04-17). Talking Indian: Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 9780816537686. Retrieved 9 October 2018. Search this book on
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- Zimman, Lal (August 2014). Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Studies in Language and Gender. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199937318. Retrieved 9 October 2018. Search this book on </ref>
Journal articles[edit]
- Davis, Jenny L. (2017). "Resisting rhetorics of language endangerment: Reclamation through Indigenous language survivance". Language Documentation and Description. 14: 37–58. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- Davis, Jenny L. (March 2016). "Language Affiliation and ethnolinguistic identity in Chickasaw Language revitalization". Language & Communication. 47: 100–111. doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2015.04.005.
- Adkins, Madeleine; Davis, Jenny L. (September 2012). "The naïf, the sophisticate, and the party girl: Regional and gender stereotypes in Breton language web videos". Gender and Language, Special Issue: Gender and Endangered Languages. 6 (2): 291–308. doi:10.1558/genl.v6i2.291. Pdf.
Book Chapters[edit]
Davis, Jenny L. (August 1, 2014). More than just 'gay Indians': Intersecting articulations of Two-Sprit gender, sexuality and indigenousness. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199937318. Retrieved 9 October 2018. Search this book on </ref>
References[edit]
- ↑ "University of Arizona Press authors". Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ↑ "Faculty Profile: Jenny L. Davis". UIUC Anthropology People. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ↑ "World's Only Public Two-Spirit Powwow to Celebrate Fourth Annual Event". Indian Country Today. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ↑ "Dept. of Anthropology People". University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ↑ "The Ruth Benedict Prize". Association for Queer Anthropology. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ↑ "Junior faculty highlighted as LEAP Scholars". News College of LAS UIUC. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
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